Word: medievalsm
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...expense of the "meretricious medievalsm and stale iconography" of the ornament on the library cannot perhaps be justified, but it hardly "monumentalizes the vulgarity of the American educator's mind." If the lighting and ventilating systems cost more than windows, at least the mighty walls shut out some of the din of Elm Street. If steel girders can be used to advantage in supporting stone, "architectural falsity" need not prevent it. And there are probably many who would welcome the conversion of more telephone booths into fourteenth century confessionals...
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